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Beyond the postcard
A city is not a checklist. It is a story you step into.
With only a few hours or several days, your time in Moscow should feel entirely your own. Every route is shaped around your pace, interests and curiosity.
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Moscow.
Explore every available private tour. Each experience can be tailored to your interests, timing and pace.
THEATERS
You can book and buy tickets yourself on-line. Male vocal ensemble DOROS in St Basel's cathedral http://dorosmusic.org Bolshoi...
Victory museum in the Victory park
Victory park on Poklonnaya hill was opened in 1961 as an open air museum of weapons of World...
Museum of 1812 Patriotic war
Museum of the war against Napoleon (1812-1815) was opened in 2012 as a branch of the State Historical...
Contemporary Russian History Museum
Because of the restoration work some halls are closed. You can visit halls of the late 19th century...
Bunker of Stalin
The historical museum complex "Reserve command post of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army I.V. Stalin of...
Bunker-42 museum (the Cold War)
One hour Declassified tour in English language (8+) for a combined group of up to 50 people conducted...
House-museum of Victor Vasnetsov
House-museum of Victor Vasnetsov is the Neo-Russian style mansion designed by its owner outstanding Russian painter of the...
Appartment-museum of Galina Ulanova
Museum is closed for their vocation in 1-22 of August.Galina Ulanova (1910 - 1998) lived in this apartment...
House-museum of Feodor Chaliapin
Feodor Chaliapin (1873-1938) bought this house in 1910. That city-estate built in the late 18th century survived through the...
Russian decorative & applied art Museum
Most of the Russian handicrafts were developed through the centuries. To get aquatinted with them you could either...
Russian Icon private Museum
The museum represents a private collection opened for the public attendance in 2006. The collection comprises about 4500...
Kuskovo summer country estate of the Russian nobility – the Sheremetevs family
Tours are to be conducted ONLY by the museum guides. The earliest example of a country estates of...
TOURS
City Tour of Moscow; Moscow Kremlin tour; Diamond Fund Exhibition; Moscow Metro tour; Red Square Tour with nearby...
Downtown of Moscow
(No QR-code or PCR test required) Downtown of Moscow (3 – 6 hours) on foot and by the...
Moscow CITY TOUR by car / Metro
City tour of Moscow (2,5 – 4 hours) has main stops that reflect highlights of the city: Red...
Moscow Metro
Moscow Metro tour (1-1,5 hours) include “the historical center” of the Moscow Metro constructed in the 1930s –...
Red Square
Red Square walking Tour could be a part of the City Tour of Moscow or an independent tour (1-2...
St. Basel’s cathedral
Visiting Saint Basel’s cathedral (0,5 – 1,5 hour) in Red Square could be a part of your City...
Lenin’s Tomb & Kremlin Memorial Cemetery
Visiting Lenin’s Tomb with the Kremlin Memorial Cemetery (1 hour) let you see one of the 20th century...
Cathedral of Christ the Savior
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Arbat street
Visiting Old Arbat – less than one kilometer of Moscow – could be a comfortable final stop of...
Novodevichie Memorial Cemetry
Novodevichie Memorial Cemetery (1-1,5 hours) is an old Moscow cemetery expanded in the Soviet time. It is a...
Parks of Moscow
City tour of subject (2,5 – 4 hours, from May to September) includes several objects of one kind....
Moscow ART NOUVEAU
At the turn of the 19th – 20th centuries new functional and aesthetic edifices commissioned by Moscow millionaire-industrialists...
M. Chemiakin’s sculptures
(No QR-code or PCR test required) "Children - victims of adult's vices" composition is the only group of...
Moscow CITY TOUR by Radisson river cruise
City Tour by Radisson River boattakes 2,5 hours on board. It departs and arrives at the same boat...
MOSCOW KREMLIN
Moscow Kremlin tour (1 – 3,5 hours) can include: Kremlin grounds with inside of three main cathedrals (coronation,...
Diamond Fund Exhibition
Visiting Diamond Fund Exhibition (0,5 – 1 hour) could be a part of the Kremlin Tour or an...
State Historical Museum
The State Historical Museum opened in 1883 possesses a colossal collection of artifacts, documents and historical replicas connected...
PARKS & ESTATES
Moscow inherited and reconstructed anew estates of the Russian Tsars and Moscow Nobility of the 17th – 19th...
Kolomenskoye – the first Romanovs countryside estate
Kolomenskoye is a former countryside estate of the first Romanovs located on a high bank of the Moskva...
Tsaritsyno – countryside estate of Catherine II
Museum-Reserve Tsaritsyno (1,5 – 2,5 hours) is a former countryside estate of Catherine the Great in Moscow where...
VDNKh – All-Russian Exhibition Center (VVC)
VDNKh (All-Union Exhibition of the National Economy Achievements) is a vast public park founded in the time of...
Gorky Park & Muzeon Park
(No QR-code or PCR-test required)Gorky Park tour (1,5 - 3 hours) is a former recreational and leisure park...
CLOISTERS
Moscow convents and monasteries used to play an important role in spiritual and cultural life of Russia since...
Novodevichy Convent
We stop at the Novodevichi Convent to enjoy its panoramic view from the banks of the Novodevichi pond...
St. Trinity Monastery of St. Sergius
Largest Russian acting monastery Saint Trinity Monastery of St. Sergius is located to the North-East from Moscow in...
HOUSE-MUSEUMS
House-museums of Moscow in the main represent everyday life of rich muscovites in the 19th – 20th century....
House-museum of Lev Tolstoy
House-museum of Lev Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) is one of a few wooden Moscow estates that have survived...
House-museum of M. Gorky (Stepan Ryabushinsky’s mansion)
House-museum of Stepan Ryabushinsky (Gorky hose-museum) is a pearl of Moscow Art-Nouveau style located in the down town....
House-museum of the Romanovs boyars
As a brunch of the State historical museum the Romanovs’ chambers represent household and culture of boyars* in...
FINE ART
Fine art museums of Moscow represent systematic collections of Russian and European art composed mostly in the mid...
Tretyakov picture gallery (XII – early XX cc)
Tretyakov picture gallery survey (1,5 – 2,5 hours) represents the world’s largest systematic collection of Russian art. Former...
Tretyakov picture Gallery on Krymsky Val (XX c)
Tretyakov picture gallery on Krymsky Val survey (1,5 – 2,5 hours) shows 1st and 2nd half of the 20th...
Fine Arts Museum n. a. Pushkin
Fine Arts Museum named after Pushkin (1,5 hours) – the Moscow State University museum of plaster casts, collection...
Gallery of European & American Art of the 19th–20th Centuries
The gallery contains a famed assemblage of French Impressionist works, based on the collection of two well-known Moscow...
Cosmonautics Memorial Museum
The Museum survey tour (1-2 hours) shows the history of Soviet-Russian space exploration since the preparations for the...
Out of Moscow – Moscow region sights of visit
Visiting towns, estates, monasteries and churches in Moscow region gives an opportunity to get the flavor of non-Moscow...
Town of Sergiev Posad
One day (9-10 hours) tour to provincial town of Sergiev Posad located in 70 km to the north-east...
Vladimir – Suzdal – Sergiev Posad
Vladimir - Suzdal - Sergiev Posad (500 km) - a part of the "Golden Ring of Russia" traveling...
Vladimir – Bogoliubovo – Suzdal – Vladimir (summer)
Vladimir - Bogoliubovo - Suzdal - a part of the "Golden Ring of Russia" traveling route. Vladimir and...
Town of Zvenigorod and Moscow’s countryside (by car)
Author's tour by Serge Okulov (French speaking Moscow tour-guide).The tour is available in English or French. The root...
New Jerusalem of Russia
Russian New Jerusalem – a town 70 km to the west of Moscow redesigned in the 17th century as...
Church of the icon of Our Lady of the Holy Sign in Dubrovitsy
Dubrovitsy church of the icon of Our Lady of the Holy sign (built at the turn of the...
Mozhaisk and Novo Nikolsky cathedral
The town of Mozhaisk (110 km to the west of Moscow downtown) was first mentioned in chronicles in...
Borovsk and the Nativity of Our Lady Monastery of St Pafnuty
Welcome to experience Moscow region - the small provincial town of Borovsk in 90 km to the southwest...
Russian Composers in Moscow
There are memorial museums, plaques and monuments linked with Moscow period in life of some Great Russian composers....
Panorama-museum of 1812 Borodino Battle
Museum is closed for the fundamental restoration. Founded in 1912 the Panorama-museum represents the largest battle of the...
Экскурсии
Экскурсии на русском языке: Река Неглинка и окрестности Кварта вокруг Большого театра Большая Никитская и окрестности Китай-город Московское...
SERVICES & RATES
Professional guiding assistance in Moscow (guided tours) – 1500 rub* per hour, car and museum tickets excluded. Minimum...
ABOUT
Daria Kazanina is an English speaking freelance Tour Guide and Interpreter in Moscow, RF. She specializes in corporate...
Historical Library
Thinking about the history of Russia and the Soviet Union I have decided to publish that reading list...
My reading & listening lists
These are the books both in Russian and in English that I have read in my life and...
CONTACT
CONTACT ME dkazanina@gmail.com Follow me on Skype: dashakazanina Please, let me know your list of preferences for sightseeing...
Accreditations and Certificates
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OUROBOROS
The Ouroboros or Uroborus is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. The...
УРОБОРОС
Уробо́рос (др.-греч. οὐροβόρος, от οὐρά «хвост» и βορός «пожирающий»; букв. «пожирающий [свой] хвост») — свернувшийся в кольцо змей, кусающий...
Your private guide
Hello, I'm
Darya.
Darya Postoeva (Kazanina) is an English-speaking freelance tour guide in Moscow, specializing in small private groups and corporate delegations.
With a passion for Moscow, its history and cultural landmarks, Darya creates personalized tours around each guest’s preferences and available time. Since 1999, she has held accreditations from leading Moscow museums, including the Moscow Kremlin Museums, Tretyakov Gallery, Diamond Fund, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, State Historical Museum, Novodevichy Convent and the Kolomenskoe and Tsaritsyno estates.
✦ Accredited since 1999✦ Credentials renewed every 3–5 years
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No scripts, no rushed groups. Your interests lead the way.
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History, art and everyday life connected with clarity and depth.
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